"Fair" is a contemplative novel about trauma and connection among society’s most overlooked people. Milton’s epic Paradise Lost provides comfort and courage to a homeless man in Ed Seaward’s pensive novel "Fair". Eyan is homeless.... Read More

On a placid cruise along the Norwegian coast to gather material for a magazine feature on the Northern Lights, travel writer Chaney Kwak’s boredom turned into terror. The Viking Sky sailed into treacherous waters, assaulted by a... Read More

In Elisa Shua Dusapin’s novel "Winter in Sokcho", a young woman has a fateful encounter with a man who is as lost as she is. Sokcho, a Korean beach resort, has little to offer tourists during the off season. But one tourist comes... Read More

"That They Lived" pays tribute to Black American icons through black-and-white photographs that recreate their images. It is an elegant collaboration between photographer Cristi Smith-Jones and journalist Rochelle Riley, designed to... Read More

D. B. Tipmore’s endearing memoir, "My Little Town", is perceptive in addressing rural Southern living. Tipmore, a white Northerner, moved to Marion, Alabama, and his bemused and conversational narrative is candid in observing his... Read More

Katherine Angel’s excellent academic study "Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again" concerns the politics of sexual expression. The book addresses consent, desire, arousal, and vulnerability in turn, explaining each in terms of their history,... Read More

Cyrille Martinez’s clever and incisive novel "The Dark Library" creates a surreal microuniverse of books, manuscripts, readers, librarians, and historians. In the Great Library, neglected works are becoming resentful and anguished.... Read More

In her lyric memoir "Lyrebird", Meredith Clark moves between poetry, metanarratives, and vignettes. Motivated by loss, she tries to accrue images and memories of a child yet unborn—perhaps to lure it into being, or to process her loss.... Read More